{"id":344,"date":"2025-10-02T03:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/geerling-chris\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:42:45","slug":"geerling-chris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/geerling-chris\/","title":{"rendered":"Geerling Chris"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChris Geerling<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Geerling Chris\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Chris Geerling<\/b> is a \u2013 small &#8211; farmer\u2019s son. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Sciences and has some 40 years of overseas experience in development programs, academia and (oil and infrastructure) industry, mainly, but not exclusively in Sub-Saharan Africa. He worked for UNDP\/FAO (nature conservation and management), Wageningen University (Tropical Landuse), Shell (environmental assessments and stakeholder consultation) and presently as a freelance consultant.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/extension\/broker\/design\/broker\/images\/no-image.png\" alt=\"The crucial bottom-up approach\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">The crucial bottom-up approach<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/geerling-chris\/\">Chris Geerling<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t30 October 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tSecurity is the central theme of the &#8216;It&#8217;s Down 2 Earth&#8217; conference on agriculture, food security and climate change, and the conference is coming not a moment too late.Measuring poverty in terms of income \u2013 the less-than-one-dollar-a-day standard&#8230;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Geerling Chris Geerling is a \u2013 small &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Geerling Chris \/ Authors - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chris Geerling is a \u00e2\u20ac\u201c small - farmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son. 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